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Word: acronymically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interested to learn that the FOP Steering Committee has changed the meaning of its acronym to "First-Year" Outdoor Program, ridding themselves of the politically incorrect, gender un-neutral word "Freshman." I have also noticed that a similar decision has been made by the editorial powers-that-be at The Crimson. While I respect the motives behond such decisions, I wonder if too much concern for gender neutrality might lead to some confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOP and PC | 12/4/1990 | See Source »

...takes is a change in the meaning of an acronym to spend a week in the woods, does that mean I can be a FOPper again? I am, after all, a fourth-year. We might as well be consistent with our terms and get rid of sophomore, junior and senior as well. It would also make it a little easier to figure out which of our friends have taken a little longer than usual to graduate--we'd have fifth and sixth-years. But I suppose that isn't what the chairman (excuse me, chairperson) of the steering committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOP and PC | 12/4/1990 | See Source »

With the line's success in its three games together, aficionadoes are already comparing the trio to the nationally feared H-E-M and S-A-M lines at crosstown B.C. and B.U. Too bad V-C-D isn't a convenient acronym...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: All Lines Are NOT Created Equal | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP) announced earlier this week that it was officially changing its name to the First-Year Outdoor Program. The change to gender neutrality, which will not affect the FOP acronym or its logo, was first proposed by the group's steering committee last year...

Author: By Dangalira K. Mughogho, | Title: Outdoor Program Changes Title | 11/30/1990 | See Source »

...besieged by posters of soft pornography right before parent's weekend, I wondered? How exciting! But, to my intense disappointment, this was not going to be. "Imagine what else I could have learned!" No, we were instead deluged by text from a group with the most annoying acronym in modern history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Symbols, ENOUGH Is Enough | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

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